On air

Aiight. So I forgot to say when I got off air. BUT IM ON AIR NOW. I hope that folks weren't confused when they couldn't link to the stream. I'm back now tho.

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This weekend was impossible for me to get on, particularly 10-11pm promised slot - imma have to come up with an earlier one for Fridays.

Here is a synopsis of Friday's summit:

Crashed the Summit. Everyone who registered was allowed to go. I passed out a flier and a press release which the NHA found offensive because it stated that we (organizers, tenants, advocates) were "virtually excluded" from the conference. I had to explain that over and over again (see my last post for an exp) but we did what we wanted to; I asked questions (albeit some that I wish i could rephrase or retract), our Board Pres of the Newark Coalition for Low Income Housing was on a panel that we were able to get him on after someone dropped out last week (to the denial of the NHA), and people got the news about THE PEOPLE'S SPEAKOUT, schedule for June 30, 2009 at Grace Episcopoal Church 950 Broad St. 6:00p-8:30p. According to the NHA speaking the truth and organizing it in text is part of an old model of organizing and advocacy. In reality, I think that the militant and organized approach scares people in power, especially when they know that they are doing WRONG WRONG WRONG. We had a nice fact sheet and a pretty good explaination of the problem with the NHA's policies, primarily that there will not be any affordable housing for folks, nevermind public housing which is going to be phased out soon.

Afterwards I went home tired, tired, tired, ate and went to church. A couple from another church has been preparing dinner for folks who wish to eat a meal on friday nights and usually can't get a hold on something nice. A lot of homeless and undocumented guys are around the area and they really enjoy coming to spend some time at the church. I went for the first time last night and I really enjoyed it. There were men from all over latin america and I was talkin all kinds of stuff with them, from politics, to spirituality, to FOOTBAAAAAALLLLL!!! And of course there were Hondurans there so I got to listen about the Salvadoran defeat some more.

Later that night I got to see some awesome folks at two different venues. I think I spent more time in a car looking for parking/my way back home than chillin with real cool people.

Today: lots of organizing. Invited Keith Kinard to our Housing Speak Out. Cory Booker declined the invitation. HUD Tenants Coalition meeting was held, which is always awesome. We had some real good people out today.